2015 elections

Some 350 mayors and seven governors who took office on January 1 are facing criminal investigations by Colombia’s public prosecution, the office said in a report. 350 of Colombia’s new mayors and…

Colombia’s newly elected governors, mayors and local lawmakers took office on January 1, succeeding politicians who during the past term were victim of more than 600 acts of violence, including 52 assassinations.…

Candidates in northeast Colombia have gone to extreme levels to gain votes by exploiting impoverished children, local media reported Thursday. Politicians exploited children to secure fraud in Colombia’s local elections was last…

Leftist parties have long been a marginal force in Colombia’s politics, except in the capital Bogota where they have ruled for the past 12 years. How the left lost Colombia’s…

President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday met with the newly elected mayor of Bogota, Enrique Peñalosa, to discuss the future of Colombia’s capital city. Santos has first meeting with Bogota’s…

An angry crowd burned down the city hall, a court building and the local registry office of a town in central Colombia to protest the outcome of elections in their municipality. ‘Disgruntled voters’…